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2009-10-19Short Film about Internet Supported by NIX.CZ Association

In 2008, the association of Euro-IX announced a contest for amateur as well as professional filmmakers. The aim of the project was to create a short film explaining the internal functioning of the Internet. The NIX.CZ Association participated in the financing of the project with the aim to contribute to the creation of material which would be easy to understand for standard users of the Internet. The project has now been completed and the film called “The Internet Revealed” can be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes. Its version with Czech subtitles is also available on YouTube. To watch the film please click: www.youtube.com/watc… .

The Internet is currently an inseparable part of public as well as private life, thus users are becoming increasingly interested in the issues related to the Internet. The aforementioned film describes the methods of creating and interconnecting networks and also deals with the role of Internet eXchange Points within the Internet world, explains the meaning of the word “peering” etc. It describes and summarizes the activities of IXPs, i.e. also of the NIX.CZ association. It has been developed for general public and can be used as an educational resource.

About Euro-IX association:

Euro-IX (European Internet Exchange Association) was formed in May 2001with the intention to further develop, strengthen and improve the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) community. Today Euro-IX has 44 affiliated IXPs originating from 27 countries around the world.

More information about EURO-IX can be found at: www.euro-ix.net/ .

About NIX.CZ association:

The special-interest association of legal entities NIX.CZ is an organization uniting Czech as well as foreign providers of internet services for the sake of interconnecting their networks. Currently, the association is the largest neutral IXP (Internet Exchange Point) in the Czech Republic and ranks among the ten biggest IXPs in Europe. Thorough planning, inventive technical solution and technical support on a 24/7/365 basis secure a flawless operation of the exchange point. Since 2003, the organization has been supporting peering by means of the IPv6 protocol.

More information about NIX.CZ can be found at: www.nix.cz/ .

Contact: Ing. Tomáš Maršálek, Director of Association, tm [zavinac] nix.cz
Information: www.nix.cz, NIX.CZ, z.s.p.o., Vinohradská 184, Praha (Prague)

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